In biology/chemistry we like to say, "If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

Honestly in my group we don't tell very many geeky jokes, though, I don't know what's wrong with us. I hope to gain some good ones from this thread!

ETA: I do puns sometimes. Actually, one pun over and over again, sadly...Boss: I have to finish my contribution to the nanotechnology paper.Me: At least it's a small part.Then I crack up, and my boss looks at me like, "I can't believe I pay you to work here."

My dad loves "Tom Swifties," though. You start with simple ones:

"I just washed that window!" Tom said clearly.

Then you move on to more obscure ones:

"I'm learning about Charlemagne," Tom said frankly."All in all, Helsinki is a great city," Tom finished."That's a lovely Christmas tree," Tom opined.

In biology/chemistry we like to say, "If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

Honestly in my group we don't tell very many geeky jokes, though, I don't know what's wrong with us. I hope to gain some good ones from this thread!

ETA: I do puns sometimes. Actually, one pun over and over again, sadly...Boss: I have to finish my contribution to the nanotechnology paper.Me: At least it's a small part.Then I crack up, and my boss looks at me like, "I can't believe I pay you to work here."

In biology/chemistry we like to say, "If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

Honestly in my group we don't tell very many geeky jokes, though, I don't know what's wrong with us. I hope to gain some good ones from this thread!

ETA: I do puns sometimes. Actually, one pun over and over again, sadly...Boss: I have to finish my contribution to the nanotechnology paper.Me: At least it's a small part.Then I crack up, and my boss looks at me like, "I can't believe I pay you to work here."

My dad loves "Tom Swifties," though. You start with simple ones:

"I just washed that window!" Tom said clearly.

Then you move on to more obscure ones:

"I'm learning about Charlemagne," Tom said frankly."All in all, Helsinki is a great city," Tom finished."That's a lovely Christmas tree," Tom opined.

I guess they're puns?

I have never heard of these Tom Swifties, but Dark Boyfriend is going to want to throttle you now that I have! *insert evil laugh* (Also, I'd laugh like a loon every time I said, "At least it's a small contribution." if I were you!)

OK, the whole story is that this is from a famous Zen koan (a koan is the Buddhist equivalent of a parable, more or less). In the koan, a student asks a famous Zen master that question, and he answers, "No." The word for "no" in ancient Japanese (in which the story was originally told) is "Mu."